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Country Craft Fairs/Homemade Biscuits and Sausage

Recently on Facebook I was reminded of how fun our country’s outside fairs are. All over Georgia, Tennesse, Alabama, North and South Carolina I have enjoyed participating in southern outdoor craft fairs. From spring until fall these craft fairs bring people together with music, food and expert craftmenship from all over the country. I have made wreaths and baskets and different handcrafted items but my favorite has always been cooking. It started one year when I brought homemade biscuits and fried sausage to make for our breakfast before the fair opened. The other artists started early setting up their booths and when the smell of the fresh biscuits and the frying of the sausage filled the air, here they came. They were willing to pay whatever I asked. So the next day I prepared a little better with help from dear friends, Diane Corn, Bea Chadburn and Don Bright who stayed up late to help me make and bake biscuits. It seemed no matter how many biscuits we made, we always sold out. Here’s the recipe for biscuits from our sweet Mimi Short.

Buttermilk Biscuits

Preheat oven to 450 degrees

Add 2 cups self-rising flour to mixing bowl and rub in 3 heaping T of shorting or butter. Add 1 cup buttermilk and work it together. Pour onto surface and roll out the thickness you want for your biscuits. Cut with floured cutter and place not touching onto a greased pan. Bake about 10-12 minutes or ’til the color of brown you like. Add cooked sausages or bacon. I alway have mustard and jelly available!

Those were the days!!!! And the strawberry shortcakes!!!! And the cotton candy!!!And there is nothing like fresh coffee on a coooool morning in a fresh-mown field with the sun coming up and all the hustle and bustle around you. And Mimi’s bisquits!! Memories were certainly made of these things!!!